The Red Oak Creek Covered Bridge’s longevity is nearly as astounding as the story of its builder, Horace King, part black, part white, part Catawba Indian—a man so far ahead of his time that he wore a soul patch 60 years before anyone heard of jazz.

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It doesn’t much matter what I think about Superica and The El Felix, Ford Fry’s two new Tex-Mex restaurants with almost identical menus and almost identical lines. When I asked the manager of The El Felix—in Avalon, the Alpharetta mall-city—how many diners they served, he said, “Three to four hundred on a slow night.”

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Style & Substance

How to decorate with summer's happiest hues, a Swedish midsummer celebration, where to shop on the Westside, Nancy Braithwaite on Coco Chanel, luxe life on the lake, an essay from Mary Kay Andrews, and much more in the summer issue of Atlanta Magazine's HOME.

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Southbound magazine, the newest ancillary title from the publishers of Atlanta magazine, showcases the top travel destinations in the Southeast. We visit idyllic small towns and exciting cities in search of outstanding vacation opportunities.Inside Southbound

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Georgia offers diverse places to see and things to do, from the mountains in North Georgia to the coasts of Savannah and The Golden Isles. Take a tour in your own backyard and visit all that our great state has to offer. Begin your tour

Dining in has its advantages: You can wear what you want, eat when you want, and drink as much as you like. To craft the perfect dinner party but skip dirtying the kitchen, look to these seven purveyors for the best meat, cheese, pasta, wine, and dessert.

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July 2015: Top Doctors

The list of doctors whom other doctors trust most. Plus, a roundtable of experts on the challenges of Alzheimer’s disease, and an Atlanta photographer documents his surgeon father’s struggle with dementia.

Mayor Reed and APD kick off public safety forums

Expect lots of questions at tonight’s East Atlanta town hall

About a month ago, my neighbor’s Jeep Cherokee was stolen. In the annals of city crime, this is hardly a noteworthy theft. Except that I live in a gated loft development with on-site security. And that said Jeep then was used in an attempted burglary; apparently such twin misdeeds—stealing SUVs and using them to haul off stolen stuff—are a trend this summer, according to the cops who responded to my neighbor’s complaint. Also, I should mention it was the second time this particular Jeep has been swiped and that a couple months ago someone was carjacked at gunpoint in the same gated lot.

Citywide, crime is flat in Atlanta. But when you look at the data, it’s clear that crime spikes in some areas are definitely matters of reality not perception. So you can expect high turnouts at a series of public safety forums that kicks off tonight in East Lake. Mayor Kasim Reed, members of City Council, and APD will host three such meetings over the next few weeks.

I live in Cabbagetown, part of the Atlanta Police Department’s Zone 6, which covers much of the Eastside. My neighbor’s experience is hardly unique: auto thefts in Zone 6 have gone up by 24 percent, with 590 stolen vehicles as of July 27, compared to 474 for the same time period in 2012. Burglary increased by 67 percent while robbery went up 34 percent.

To say that my fellow Zone 6 residents are on edge is putting it mildly. There’s similar anxiety in Zone 3 (which includes the Turner Field area) where thefts from cars have increased 22 percent, and in Zone 4 (which encompasses southwest Atlanta) where robbery is up 12 percent.